Improvement in marsh-shoes



R. K. JORDAN.

Marsh Shoe.

INVENTUR WITNESSES N PETERS, PHOTUL THOGR UNITED STATES PATENT OEEIoE.

ROBERT K. JORDAN, OF OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA.

IMPROVEMENT IN MARSH-SHOES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 201,882, dated April 2, 1878; application filed May 22, 1877.

. To all whom it may concerni- Be it known that I, ROBERT K. JORDAN, of Oakland, in the county of Alameda and State of California, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Horseshoes for Marshy Ground, of which the following is a specification, reference being had to the accompanying drawing, and to the letters marked thereon.

Figure 1 is an under plan view; Fig. 2, an upper plan view; Fig. 3, an edge view; and Fig. 4 is a view of the same attached to a horses foot.

This invention has relation to that class of shoes for horses to prevent them from sinking into marsh or tule ground; and the invention consists in the peculiar construction of such shoes, as will be hereinafter described, and subsequently pointed out in the claim.

In the accompanying drawings, A represents the shoe, cast or otherwise formed of any suitable metal, with an annular foot-rest, a, provided with two rows of nail-holes, said footrest having serrations or corrugations b, to

face has calks e, which also serve to strengthen 1 the rim of the shoe.

Having now fully described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

The shoe A, formed with foot-rest a, open- Q ing 0, serrations or corrugations b, radial ribs d, and calks e, substantially as and for the purpose specified.

ROBERT K. JORDAN.

Witnesses:

JOHN H. REnsToNE, J. R. GILMAN. 

